The Toolkit [online] presents a menu of strategies grounded in case studies of real projects that are exemplary of how arts and culture can be an effective component of planning, community development, land use, housing, transportation, economic development, public health, and public safety projects and initiatives. [What is this Toolkit]

This report is based on research conducted to gather insights from arts, humanities, and science based youth development programs on the keys to their practice, impact, and future. The report serves as briefing materials for the National Summit on Creative Youth Development: Unite. Celebrate. Activate held in March 2014. The Summit was presented by the Massachusetts Cultural Council in partnership with the National Guild for Community Arts Education and the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.

This book is about the promise and power of the idea - the people and their programs. It is based largely on the individual and collective experience of six diverse urban school districts known as the League of Cities for the Arts in Education whose members are located in Hartford, Little Rock, Minneapolis, New York City, Seattle and Winston-Salem.

This article describes LocalMotive: Public Art Off the Beaten Path, a project of The Revolving Museum located in Lowell, Massachusetts.

This cultural economic impact study examines the economic status of non-profit cultural organizations in 2002 for New England as well as for individual states in the region.

This report presents the findings of a study of awareness, attitudes and behavior of the people of Winston-Salem/Forsyth County toward the arts and culture.

This document includes samples of legislation from Arizona, Massachusetts, South Dakota and Shreveport, Louisiana that allows for the arts to benefit from gambling revenues.

This thesis investigates four arts districts (Providence, RI, Pawtucket RI, Worcester MA, and New Bedford MA) in order to answer ways in which artists can be proactively involved in the urban regeneration process.

This Sustainability Plan has been reviewed and approved by President Katherine Sloan of Massachusetts College of Art (MassArt) on April 2005.

New England Foundation for the Arts presents its annual report for fiscal year 2004 as an interactive, online publication through their website.

New England Foundation for the Arts presents highlights from New England's Creative Economy: the Non-profit Sector, 2002 via their website. This cultural economic impact study examines the economic status of non-profit cultural organizations in 2002 for New England as well as for individual states in the region.

Many states have created arts-based economic development strategies to support rural communities across the who are confronting economic development issues.

In November of 1978, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities invited leaders from business, government, and the arts to bring their combined experience to bear on the fiscal problems facing the Commonwealth's cultural community. The specific charge of the Task Force was to formulate recommendations that would strengthen the base of support for all of the state's cultural resources. After a year-long volunteer effort, the Task Force has fulfilled its charge. The task Force proposes eight recommendations in all: five have been filed as bills in the 1980 legislative session, and

Boston, Massachusetts [population: 574,000] is one of the 33 communities, ranging in population from 8,500 to 2.5 million, included in this three year study. The study examined data from 789 nonprofit organizations in order to compile a national average. The study was designed to document nonprofit arts expenditures in a cross section of American communities and demonstrate the economic impact gained from investing in the arts.

Keeping Boston's Creative Capital quantifies what kind of space artists need, as well as what they can afford to pay for that space. This data will allow the City of Boston, the BRA and developers of real estate better understand and respond to the needs and opportunities present in our vibrant artist community.

The Midtown Cultural District Plan outlines a balanced program of growth that will create a new downtown community of residences, businesses and cultural facilities.

The author examines cultural planning based on field experience in Amherst, Lawrence, Northampton, and the Northern Berkshire region of Massachusetts which includes Williamstown, North Adams and Adams.